By Eleanor Reader
IBM has partnered with SAP to launch a new global service for cloud and ‘big data’ called IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+.
The aim of the partnership is to allow enterprises to access, run and store all their SAP applications safely and accurately in the cloud from data centres in Australia, the US, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany and Japan, as well as from a new cloud centre opening in Barcelona this year.
According to IBM, SCE+ will support SAP applications, including SAP Business Suite software and SAP BusinessObjects, offering the same quality and service levels as private hosted information technology environments but at a lower cost.
It is intended to go beyond public IaaS clouds by offering high service-level agreements, security and reliability along with elasticity and subscription-based pricing, IBM said.
The service enables enterprises’ access from the cloud to core applications such as ERP, CRM, analytics, social business and mobile computing.
“This is a logical evolution of IBM’s sourcing business that gives us an advantage both in our services relationships and the cloud market as we define a new enterprise-grade cloud today,” Jim Comfort, general manager of IBM SmartCloud Services, said in a statement.
“Our clients want sophisticated, economical cloud-based services that provide the same quality and service level as a private, hosted IT environment.”
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